Astronomers Use Hubble, Gravity Lensing to Spot Most Distant Galaxy
Astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope and a natural consequence of large scale gravity, have imaged the most distant galaxy identified so far. Measured at just 600 light years across, quite small in cosmic terms, MACS0647-JD was imaged as it was just 420...Curiosity’s Curious “Finding” on Mars
The scientific community is abuzz about NASA’s one-ton Mars rover, Curiosity, making a finding using a suite of instruments called SAM that can gulp in and analyze Martian soil samples. Those SAM findings have not yet been released. The story that kick-started all the...NASA Johnson and Glenn Will Start 2013 With New Directors
NASA’s Johnson Space Center, in Houston,Texas, and Glenn Research Center, in Cleveland, Ohio, will begin the New Year with new directors. Ellen Ochoa, a former astronaut, moves up from deputy director of NASA Johnson to replace Mike Coats, after seven years at...NASA’s Kepler Planet Hunter Granted Extended Mission
NASA’s prolific Kepler alien planet hunter has received a potential four-year extension to continue its search for Earth-like worlds circling within the habitable zones of distant stars. The Kepler space telescope’s just ending 3 1/2 year prime mission has...ISS Astronauts to Host Student Scientists during Live Educational Nov. 15 Video, Web Casts
Just days before she is scheduled to return to Earth after a four month mission, International Space Station commander Suni Williams will join with fellow NASA astronaut Kevin Ford on Thursday to host a live two-way event with middle and high school students...Finding Exoplanets: How to Take the Galactic Census
On the hunt for still undiscovered exoplanets? Take note that a research team has put together a set of directions, pointers to help find planets around other stars. Lowell Observatory astronomer Evgenya Shkolnik and her collaborators have examined new and existing...Recently Formed Craters Spotted on Mars
Future human crews strolling around on Mars need to keep an eye on the Martian sky – for one they’ll have to be on the lookout for incoming objects. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has spotted a cluster of impact craters that formed sometime between August...Astronaut Commands Rover Over New Space Internet
Using a developmental version of a space Internet, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams commanded a robot on a mock planetary surface in Germany to move forward and take pictures with a laptop aboard the International Space Station. The Oct. 23 exercise was sponsored...NASA Offers Space Station Viewers Email, Text Alerts
Just a few days ago, the U. S. led International Space Station reached a significant milestone: a dozen years of continuous human occupancy. NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko arrived aboard a Soyuz capsule on Nov....Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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